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Pasadena recently approved a contract with LA28, joining Inglewood, Long Beach and other neighboring cities where venues will be located, but Santa Monica City Council members have balked at hosting beach volleyball.

He brought up the vice president's visit to "The View," in which she balked at offering any differences between herself and Biden.

On a September visit to Indiana, she originally balked at an unworkable practice schedule her team was given before realizing she hadn’t converted the time.

The bid was vetoed by the previous Conservative government, who balked at the idea of a foreign state having majority ownership of politically influential UK newspapers and periodicals.

The Republican ticket has balked at explicitly endorsing a national abortion ban, preferring strategic ambiguity, and even suggested that IVF should be funded by taxpayers.